Life Will Be Hard For Aardvarks
The hotter and drier conditions predicted for the Kalahari Desert will prove disastrous for aardvarks, and for the animals who rely on the burrows they create for their own survival.
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Reintroduction Experiments Give Hope for Endangered Marsh Sandwort
The one place where this species is found naturally is a freshwater bog where the plants are in standing water, but it was found that the plant actually does better without standing water.
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UK’s First Refuge for Hedgehogs
Just six decades ago, hedgehogs numbered around 36 million. There are now less than one million. In an attempt to reverse this decline, the first large-scale hedgehog conservation area in the UK opened last week.
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Only 30 Vaquita Left In The Wild
Just 30 vaquitas, the world's smallest porpoise, are left in the wild due to illegal gill net fishing causing their numbers to plummet by 90% in recent years.
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Government Backs Down Over Buzzards
Groups such as the RSPB welcomed the decision, especially since buzzard populations were once so low in this country.
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How Climate Change Affects Seabirds
This bird is an endangered species in Norway, with numbers plummeting from around 160,000 pairs in the 1960s to just 15,000 breeding pairs today.
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